Top 20 literary hot spots

Alfred John Trewhella, one of the characters in D H Lawrence’s 1923
Australian novel Kangaroo, hails from this beautiful village in mid
Cornwall. As you’d expect, tradition runs deep here – on Shrove Tuesday
residents play the medieval game of “hurling”, in which people endeavour to carry
a silver ball to goals two miles apart.

Top tip Older houses in reasonable shape can be found in the village
centre. Miller estate agents (millercountrywide.co.uk) is selling new-build
four-bedroom properties for £315,000.

For sale A 16th-century six-bedroom home with an outbuilding, £900,000,
Chesterton Humberts (01872 278288; chestertonhumberts.com).